By now, we know that two goalies were traded on Deadline Day, but neither was @strombone1 (Roberto Luongo) nor the quiet Kipper (Miikka Kiprusoff), who ended up having press conferences Wednesday to talk about why they were still where they were.

If you’re a Ben Bishop booster or still on Steve Mason’s bandwagon, you were an interested party Wednesday when they were off-loaded to Tampa and Philadelphia, but most fans wanted to see if Looie or Kipper went to the Toronto Maple Leafs.

In the end, Luongo’s 12-year contract which he says “sucks and he’d scrap it right now if I could” kept him in Vancouver, while Kiprusoff, who has one year left on his deal at a paltry $1.5 million, decided he’d stick it out with the Flames, even though they’re in a turtle derby with Florida and Colorado to see who’s the worst team in the NHL while the Maple Leafs are on their way to the playoffs for the first time since 2004.

Kiprusoff’s baby boy Oskar’s condition — he was born premature and is still in an incubator–made his decision to stay in Calgary easy.

He didn’t want to leave his boy or his mother and fly across the country for a playoff run, even though his normally wonderful game has looked very suspect this season and he could use a challenge.

He hasn’t looked mentally engaged, at all, this lockout season apart from a few nights, and, certainly could retire rather than play out his last year. He could return to Finland.

He owns piece of the Warrior stick company, the Turku hockey team, he’s got lots of money in the bank, and maybe he’s just tired.

Feaster talked to Kiprusoff before practice Wednesday at the Saddledome. He had the Leafs on the hook, maybe for a second-round draft and/or goalie Ben Scrivens, but Kiprusoff reiterated he wasn’t leaving.

“He said he’d like to finish things here and I give him high marks,” said Feaster, “because he could have looked to get an extension (from Toronto) or do this or that and make a move but ultimately that’s not where his heart is.”

Kiprusoff said much the same in his six-minute (a long talk for Kipper) presser before the Edmonton Oilers’ game.

He did say he thought hard about the Leafs, he did say that he still wants to win a Stanley Cup (he’d have a better chance in Pittsburgh or Chicago than Toronto), he did say that he has thought about retirement.

In the end, his family situation right now prevailed over a desire to tug on another jersey.

The Leafs didn’t get Kiprusoff but shrugged it off. He wasn’t going to be coming in to be the saviour, anyway, he was coming in to mentor James Reimer, according to GM Dave Nonis.

Kipper’s decision to stay where he is was expected. Not so was owner Murray Edwards telling Feaster he still expected to make the playoffs next season.

“I’ve got my marching orders,” said Feaster.

Yeah, well, he’ll be going to battle next year with a bunch of muskets.

Edwards’ declaration was greeted with a large “whhhaatt?” around the NHL. That’s an impossible task.

Edwards is entitled to say what he wants; comes with being an owner, but if he wants the Flames in the playoffs next year without Iginla, without Bouwmeester, with Kiprusoff, he’s not a big-picture guy. He’s a small window guy.

Feaster is in full rebuild, with three first-round draft picks in June (one for Iginla, one for Bouwmeester), and the club’s own, which could net them Portland defenceman Seth Jones, Halifax centre Nathan MacKinnon, McKinnon’s winger Jonathan Drouin or Finnish centre Aleksander Barkov.

They have holes galore on their roster, befitting a team that’s starting over.

“Obviously, guys are being shipped out of Calgary and nobody’s really too sure what’s happening,” said Blake Comeau, who was doing interviews in the dressing room in the morning Wednesday, never thinking he’d be pardoned from jail here in Calgary and sent to Columbus.

The Oilers were in the Bishop hunt but predictably aren’t saying what they were offering.

It’s already been reported it was unrestricted free-agent Ryan Jones and a draft pick or two. They have two second-rounders this June — an extra for the Andrew Cogliano trade with Anaheim — but no third or fourth. They might have offered a pick for the 2014 draft.

Bishop would have been interesting in Edmonton. He’s 6’7″, Devan Dubnyk is 6’5″. They played against each other when Bishop was in the St. Louis Blues’ organization, at Rexall Place.

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